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So maybe we could chat a little bit...
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...and I could get some background...
- I'm not going to talk to you much.
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It's not personal.
:22:12
It's the Indian way.
:22:26
Angraecum sesquipedale.
:22:29
Beauty! God!
:22:32
Darwin wrote about this one.
:22:34
Charles Darwin? Evolution guy?
Hello?
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You see that nectary
all the way down there?
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Darwin hypothesized a moth...
:22:43
...with a nose 12 inches long
to pollinate it.
:22:46
Everyone thought he was a loon.
:22:49
Then, sure enough, they found
this moth with a 12-inch proboscis.
:22:53
- "Proboscis" means nose, by the way.
- I know what "proboscis" means.
:22:56
Hey, let's not get off the subject.
This isn't a pissing contest.
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The point is,
what's so wonderful...
:23:03
...is that every one of these flowers
has a specific relationship...
:23:06
...with the insect that pollinates it.
:23:08
There's a certain orchid
looks exactly like a certain insect.
:23:11
So the insect is drawn to this flower...
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...its double, its soul mate...
:23:17
...and wants nothing more
than to make love to it.
:23:20
After the insect flies off...
:23:23
...it spots another soul-mate flower
and makes love to it, thus pollinating it.
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And neither the flower nor the insect
will ever understand...
:23:31
...the significance
of their lovemaking.
:23:34
How could they know that because
of their little dance, the world lives?
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But it does.
:23:39
By simply doing
what they're designed to do...
:23:42
...something large
and magnificent happens.
:23:44
In this sense, they show us
how to live.
:23:47
How the only barometer
you have is your heart.
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How when you spot your flower,
you can't let anything get in your way.